I was a lab rat for Big Pharma Prescriptions, physicians, psychiatrists and Big Pharma. An Unholy Alliance OR well-intentioned medical people using the only strategy they know? In the early 1980s, after years of issues, I was diagnosed with clinical depression by the leading psychiatrist at the University of Alberta. The apparent “cause” of my […]
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Precisely nothing. What do you know of the Myth of Inanna. Most particularly her Descent and Ascent? Perhaps you know exactly what I knew in 1988. Precisely nothing. Women, we have so much yet to learn. We know so little of our own history for it has been buried, burned, hidden and female bodies judged […]
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Oct
Friday night, the Oasis Sisters Reading Circle discuss their responses to I, the Woman, Planted the Tree: A Journey through Dreams to the Feminine.
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Oct
“Blessed are the weird people … the poets, misfits, writers, mystics, heretics, painters & troubadours, and the dreamworkers–for we teach you to see the world through different eyes.” October 4, 2019, I gave a short talk about Being Weird at the Womanition (www.womanition.com) Biz Brigade Conference. There were about 200 Alberta Business Woman there. I […]
Mental Health Awareness. October 7 to 12. Last week, I checked out some book reviews on Amazon. And, just in time for Mental Health Awareness Week, found a short and pointed review headlined “Writers {sic} attempt to make excuses for her own mental health.” The reviewer wrote only two sentences: I Did NOT like this […]
In the next few months, I will post dream work ideas. Please join me. I don’t promise to post regularly. Life with dreams, retirement, being an author, living the best life ever, I try desperately to avoid any semblance of schedules! “I NEVER remember my dreams.” First, stop saying that. Then set an intention: “I […]
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Join Catherine Potter and author Pearl Gregor in a thought-provoking conversation about depression, the healing power of dreams and feminine/masculine energy. Please see more podcasts by Catherine Potter here: iTunes Podcast
Without even one small clue about what was happening in my inner world, in fact, not even knowing what “inner world” might mean, I asked for a dream. I was desperate. Mad with the black, bleakness of clinical depression. A Box of Books, and a dream I mostly surely did not have a remote glimmer […]
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We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light. –Hildegard of Bingen 1098 – 17 […]
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